Hi,

I have been able to install the Bitcoin Core node (version 22.0) on my own server. But now I want to continue with installing an Electrum server that connects to my node.

How do I do that?

Where do I download the "best" version from?

Any good tutorial that I can read?

What is the difference between Electrum and ElectrumX?

Thanks!

I want to learn everything there is about running a Bitcoin Core node. But where do I get started? Can anyone point me in the right direction for tutorials and/or YouTube videos explaining the whole eco system?

Also, I would love more technical information, like what to think about if you want a high performance node.

I want to build everything from scratch so I will compile the Bitcoin Core myself and run it in a Debian installation without GUI.

Please help

I have compiled and installed Bitcoin Core for the first time on Debian 11. Everything is up and running except that RPC port 8332 is not accessible after a reboot.

I get the following error running bitcoin-cli getblockcount:

error: timeout on transient error: Could not connect to the server 127.0.0.1:8332

If I then run systemctl restart bitcoind then everything works fine.

systemctl status bitcoind shows that it is up and running just fine after a reboot.

Look at this after the reboot:

Code:

netstat -nap | grep bitcoin | grep LISTEN

tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:8333 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 456/bitcoind
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:8334 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 456/bitcoind
tcp6 0 0 ::1:8332 :::* LISTEN 456/bitcoind
tcp6 0 0 :::8333 :::* LISTEN 456/bitcoind

And then after systemctl restart bitcoind:

Code:

tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:8332 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 532/bitcoind
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:8333 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 532/bitcoind
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:8334 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 532/bitcoind
tcp6 0 0 ::1:8332 :::* LISTEN 532/bitcoind
tcp6 0 0 :::8333 :::* LISTEN 532/bitcoind

For some reason the 8332 port is not opened on reboot...

Any idea what will solve the problem?